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Lawyers turn red
The profession threw itself into Red Nose Day with its usual vigour, with staff showing great enthusiasm to forget work and muck around like eejits.
But the biggest hand must go to (clockwise from top left) Andrew Owens at Southport firm Barnetts, who raised more than 150 in sponsorship for eating a catfood sandwich.
In fact, Barnetts showed a great deal of imagination in its activities for the day, also holding a frenzied auction among junior staff to 'buy' members of the senior management team and have them take on their menial tasks for the day and also be at their buyers' beck and call for such important matters as making tea.
Here Becky Lim gets her priorities set for the day by asking the firm's chief executive, Joe Whelan, to put the kettle on.
The firm hopes to top 1,000 from its fund-raising.
Staff at Plymouth firm Nash & Co got fully into the spirit of Red Nose Day, raising money by dressing down their clothes and dressing up their hair dos.
In Manchester, Nancy Towler, an Australian-born legal secretary at James Chapman & Co, was put on public display in King Street so people could pay 1 to 'splat an Aussie' in revenge for the countless sporting humiliations Australia has visited upon the English.
Together with a raffle and dress down day, the firm raised more than 600.
And finally, Cheltenham firm BPE, together with PR agency Camargue, set a new world record for Chinese whispers at the recent Cheltenham national hunt festival.
They set up a 'whisper portal' which racegoers walked through and passed on a secret message.
A total of 440 people passed a message to each other in a chain, beating the existing record by 144 and raising 800 for Comic Relief.
The effort was started by Nicholas Parsons, and finished with the statement that 'Best Mate's a cert, and if you believe that you'll believe anything'.
Best Mate, of course, then won the Gold Cup.
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